Editing Camisards (section)

===Jean Cavalier===
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Led by the young [[Jean Cavalier]] and [[Roland Laporte|Pierre Laporte (Rolland)]], the Camisards met the ravages of the royal army with [[irregular warfare]] methods and withstood superior forces in several pitched battles.<ref>Ana Eliza Bray (1870), ''The Revolt of the Protestants of the Cevennes, with some account of the Huguenots in the seventeenth century''. John Murray, London.[https://books.google.com/books?id=VR5MDn0i69AC&oe=UTF-8]</ref>

Violence increased as atrocities were committed on both sides: massacres in Catholic villages such as [[Fraissinet-de-Fourques]], [[Saint-André-d'Olérargues|Valsauve]] and [[Potelières]] by camisards. Basville, a government administrator with a reputation founded on torture, deported the entire populations of [[Mialet, Gard|Mialet]] and [[Saumane, Gard|Saumane]]. Then in the autumn of 1703, with the king's consent, the systematic "Burning of the Cévennes" destroyed 466 hamlets and exiled their populations.{{sfn|Bersier|2016}}

Other Protestants, like those of [[Fraissinet-de-Lozère]], under the influence of village elites, chose a loyalist attitude and fought the Camisards. They were nevertheless equally victims, losing their homes during the "Burning of the Cévennes".<ref>Ghislain Baury, ''La dynastie Rouvière de Fraissinet-de-Lozère. Les élites villageoises dans les Cévennes protestantes d'après un fonds d'archives inédit (1403-1908)'', t. 1: ''La chronique'', t. 2: ''L'inventaire'', Sète, Les Nouvelles Presses du Languedoc, 2011, http://sites.google.com/site/dynastierouviere/</ref>

White Camisards, also known as "Cadets of the Cross" ("Cadets de la Croix", from a small white cross which they wore on their coats), were Catholics from neighboring communities such as [[Saint-Florent-sur-Auzonnet|St. Florent]], [[Senechas]] and [[Rousson, Gard|Rousson]] who, on seeing their old enemies on the run, organized into companies to loot and to hunt the rebels down.{{sfn|Bersier|2016}} They committed atrocities, such as killing 52 people at the village of [[Brenoux]], including pregnant women and children.

Other opponents of the Protestants included six hundred [[Miquelet (militia)|miquelet]] marksmen from [[Roussillon]] hired as [[mercenary|mercenaries]] by the King.

In 1704, [[Claude Louis Hector de Villars]], the royal commander, offered vague concessions to the Protestants and the promise to Cavalier of a command in the royal army. Cavalier's acceptance of the offer broke the revolt, although others, including Laporte, refused to submit unless the [[Edict of Nantes]] was restored. Scattered fighting went on until 1710, but the true end of the uprising was the arrival in the Cévennes of the Protestant minister [[Antoine Court (Huguenot)|Antoine Court]] and the reestablishment of a small Protestant community that was largely left in peace, especially after the death of [[Louis XIV]] in 1715.